What’s it about? Most Americans don’t know just how far economic inequality has gone in the United States. We have the most extreme inequality in the industrial world. This short video shows the numbers:Wealth Inequality in America. For some telling numbers about 21st century America, see this short piece: The Real Terrorists: the .01%.

The loss of democratic governance in the United States and descent into“corporatocracy” and extreme economic disparity has not happened by accident. Financial “meltdowns”, bank bailouts, homeless Americans and municipal bankruptcies are closely intertwined, patiently engineered through removal of policy safeguards that have served our nation well for a long time. Deregulation of the financial industry led directly to the 2008 global financial meltdown, from which we have never fully recovered. Deregulation of the media has now made it possible for all of mainstream television, radio and print media to be concentrated in the hands of just half a dozen giant corporations.

How do we reclaim our democracy? A good place to start is undoing the US Supreme Court’s infamous 2010 “Citizens United” decision, which has permitted corporate money to completely dominate our electoral political process. Corporations are not people, and money is not “speech”. If you agree, check out Move to Amend, Public Citizen and others who are committed to the long, difficult work of bringing about a constitutional amendment to eliminate this deeply entrenched evil from our society.